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📊🔥 Next Thursday 3pm Eastern, Thomas Lin Pedersen joins the #ggplot2 extenders virtual meetup to talk {marquee} and more! Don't miss this event! -> ggplot2-extenders.github.io/ggplot-exten... -> Please leave your contact info... Or first learn more about @thomasp85.com www.data-imaginist.com/about

TOMORROW IS A BIG #DSHANGOUT! We have 2 featured leaders, & they're both keynote speakers at #positconf2025 😍 Thurs May 29 @ 12pm ET meet: 👋🏼 Kieran Healy, professor of sociology at Duke 👋🏼 Jonathan McPherson, software architect at Posit 📆 Add to your calendar @ pos.it/dsh #databs #rstats #python

Prepping a presentation of marquee for the ggextenders group My examples always ends up being horrible dataviz advice...🙈

Not amazing?

mirai - minimalist async framework for #RStats - released as an 'r-lib' package. Blog post: Advancing Async Computing in R. shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir... mirai provides event-driven async for #RShiny and parallel processing for purrr #tidyverse. Really excited to be working on this at Posit!

Now imagine the confluence of variable fonts and the CoreFoundation API... The pit of despair once again evolves

Variable fonts just feels way more complicated than it should, which is how you know it’s a real font technology

With all my recent work on systemfonts I felt it was time it got a hex logo

Excited to launch "ggplot2 [un]charted" with @yan-holtz.bsky.social! 🎉 An online course to master #ggplot2 with exercises, quizzes, and modules—and hands-on code running in your browser! Still WIP—sign up now for a limited discount: 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com #rstats #DataViz #DataVisualization

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

Very lonely stripe of teal